There are always factors which differ.However, that doesn't devalue drawing parallels. Veterans who return from a war, which they and the world around them consider fair and justified, have a much easier time reentering society, because their efforts are being honoured. Those guys still march proudly each and every year.

That didn't happen back in 1918, not after Vietnam and not now. Heck, not even the coffins were being shown during the Iraq war. The dead were hidden away, in other word. Also important is that Americans don't have any personal experience with the suffering of war, as experienced here during WWII and in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine now. This remoteness makes it more difficult for them, to understand what their sons and fathers might have experienced.

That this has a very deep effect in the vets' psyches and also their relationship to the government which sent them into this war, shouldn't be hard to understand.This is the danger the author mentions.

Veterans who return from a war, which they and the world around them consider fair and justified, have a much easier time reentering society, because their efforts are being honoured. Those guys still march proudly each and every year.

I see what your saying but I don't buy into that at all

Keep in Mind that WW2 and Afghanistan we only entered the war because US was attacked - Remember Perl Harbor and 911 ? ? <-- those are fair and justified and no one questioned it .

Iraq is a whole other issue - that agree with

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That this has a very deep effect in the vets' psyches and also their relationship to the government which sent them into this war, shouldn't be hard to understand.This is the danger the author mentions.

The author is dead wrong .

1st off - soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq are treated 100% better by fellow Americans then ever before . Nothing remotely close to how returning vets were treated during the Vietnam war not even close

The author is trying to make connections with little to no facts - of-course he can have his own opinions no matter how far off he is .

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